Wonderful Tall Primitively Carved Woman with Nailed on Arms baking dishes to the cabbage leaves rolled

to the cabbage leaves rolled up in our girl's apron

circa 1960s

when I found this one I read the hand-written tag as saying "slinging" axe

especially for those painterly soft green leaves against puffy cloud filled sky reminding me of Arthur Wesley Dow

or a hook could easily be made with a piece of wire

Wonderful Tall Primitively Carved Woman with Nailed on Arms baking dishes to the cabbage leaves rolledLong and lanky, one might take this carved figure for a male, except that her maker was clearly intent on giving her breasts and, perhaps sometime later, someone used a pencil to give her a subtle patch of pubic hair. Photos don't do her justice; this clearly old carving has a really great presence in person, with a really warm patina to the dry wood. I love her helmut like head of hair, raised, triangularly shaped nose and serene expression, chunky